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Cedar LoungeFor Lefties too Stubborn to QuitThat Poll , The Household Charge and Anti Household Charge Posters on poles 13:14 Tue Feb 28, 2012 | irishelectionliterature Michael McDowell and the current dispensation. For him, what?s not to like? Apparently quite a lot! 07:51 Tue Feb 28, 2012 | WorldbyStorm How Ireland Voted 2011 ? The Full Story of Ireland?s Earthquake Election: Review 05:04 Tue Feb 28, 2012 | WorldbyStorm Fianna Fáil one year on?.. 16:49 Mon Feb 27, 2012 | irishelectionliterature Left Archive: Times Change, Number 1, Spring 1994 ? Democratic Left 02:48 Mon Feb 27, 2012 | WorldbyStorm
Dublin OpinionIt's a group blog. What more do you need to know?THE IRISH BUSINESS MODEL 10:54 Mon Feb 27, 2012 PAYING OUR WAY, SO OTHERS DON?T HAVE TO? 17:32 Sun Feb 26, 2012 ?You juke the stats, and majors become colonels? 09:53 Sun Feb 26, 2012 some figures on 2010 government expenditure 22:10 Sat Feb 25, 2012 GERY LAWLESS, AN APPRECIATION, BY D.R. O?CONNOR LYSAGHT 23:59 Tue Feb 21, 2012
Irish Left ReviewJoined up thinking for the Irish LeftToo Close for Comfort Tue Feb 28, 2012 16:21 | Donagh Bank Strategist says that cutting corporation tax is laughably stupid Mon Feb 27, 2012 18:03 | Donagh The Triumph of Spin over Substance Mon Feb 27, 2012 13:11 | Michael Taft Terry Eagleton and Kieran Allen Discuss the Return of Marx Mon Feb 27, 2012 11:10 | Paula Geraghty The Political Metaphysics of Stupidity Fri Feb 24, 2012 14:42 | John Green
MediaBiteA shot at bias in the mediaThe web's political rainbow Wed Dec 07, 2011 09:47 The Forgotten Constituency: The Majority and The Irish Economic Crisis Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:49 A curse on the zombie establishment Tue Sep 21, 2010 15:11 'Officials say', 'officials say', 'according to an official' Tue Jul 27, 2010 17:05 'The false reality of news journalism' Fri Jul 02, 2010 13:15 |
national / rights and freedoms Wednesday February 22, 2012 23:24 by Kev
Israeli Apartheid Week is an annual international series of events held across the globe. The aim is to educate people about the nature of Israeli apartheid against the Palestinian people and to build the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement locally and globally. Last year, IAW took place in over 60 cities across the globe and this year the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (http://www.ipsc.ie) is proud to again host a series of events in Ireland.
mayo / environment Thursday February 09, 2012 17:11 by Niall Harnett
An insight into prison life in Ireland, namely Castlerea Prison, Co Roscommon.
On 21st April 2010 I was convicted of assaulting a number of Gardaí in relation to Shell to Sea protests and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment. Remission for good behaviour means that prisoners will have their sentences reduced by a quarter, once you keep your nose clean. I was given credit for 2 weeks time served previously in 2009, before I was bailed out pending my appeal. So I spent 4 months in jail from April to August in the summer of 2010.
international / rights and freedoms Friday February 03, 2012 11:00 by Indyjourno with Geri Timmons
Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist was born in 1944 in North Dakota on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. He is the 11th child of 13 children and from his early years suffered racism and brutal poverty at the hands of US government and its officials. During his childhood, the Eisenhower administration passed a resolution by congress to “terminate” all Indian reservations and “relocate” Native Americans off their land pushing them into cities. This policy was later ruled illegal by US courts. To force Native Americans to leave the reservations, the US government cut off the supply of food and commodities that were promised to the reservations through treaties to recompense them for all the stolen land. Native Americans were now offered a small amount of money to move to inner city slums. Related Links: The Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee | News coverage of the Fort Lawton takeover | 'Trail of Broken Treaties' | Wounded Knee | The trial of Leonard Peltier| Ireland for Peltier Facebook page
dublin / crime and justice Saturday January 28, 2012 14:05 by Indyjourno
Today's occupation is happening at 66-67 Great Strand Street, Dublin 1. Come down and support the occupation - get involved in the debate during the day.
Related Links:
Map to the Great Grand Street site |
Unlock NAMA website (www.unlockNAMA.org) |
Unlock NAMA facebook page |
Politico.ie story |
Photo's of the occupation on Come Here to Me
nama_wasting_this_building.jpg 0.02 Mb Signs of neglect of building by NAMA even though they are supposed to make these buildings available for social development of the state 0.03 Mb
In the past decade on two separate occasions the government had to call referendums on critical issues relating to the EU and our national sovereignty and in both instances the government wanted us to vote Yes and in each case the country vote No, first for the NICE treaty and then for the Lisbon treaty. Both the Irish government and the EU itself in their fundamentaly undemocratic way rejected both of these exercises in our democratic rights and waited a short while before launching full scale propaganda onslaughts and got us to vote a 2nd time and by using mis-information, fear mongering and lies, they remolded public opinion such that we voted the 'correct' way -YES the second time around.
Now the government probably quite rightly senses it may not be able to fool us three days and in a bid to submit fully to the financial oligarchy which now seem to have the final say over most nations these days, the government are doing all they can to avoid another referendum and if this means running roughshod over the Constitution so be it. But first it is important that people understand what they are doing and should object and the People's Association Watchdog has done a very good job of high-lightling exactly what they are doing and the many sections or articles of the Constitution that they intend to ignore.
A Uachtaráin,
A trip down memory lane ... Lisbon Treaty: Three Strikes, You’re Out | The Lisbon Treaty and the triumph of technocracy | 13 things the Lisbon Treaty would do | Nice debate, shame about the treaty? | Nice and the corporate agenda: The changes to article 133 | Article 133 - The Elephant in the Living Room of the Nice II Debate | http://www.indymedia.ie/article133/ | Link 3 esm_final.doc 0.06 Mb |
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